Thanks Mike,
I'm very much in favor of a redesign, with a reset of internal subscribers.
What about a session during wikimedia conf in Milan about improving tools for
communication within the movement partners?
Charles
Le 3 avr. 2013 à 12:34, Michael Peel <michael.peel(a)wikimedia.org.uk> a écrit :
Hi all,
There's currently a proposal on the internal mailing list to close it, as well as the
internal wiki. Although I don't disagree with closing the internal-l mailing list
(it's definitely served its time), I would like us to collectively reconsider using
the internal wiki.
There is information within the Wikimedia movement that can't be shared publicly.
Some of that information has been shared on the internal wiki, but much has been kept
confidential within the various Wikimedia organisations that now exist. I think
there's a lot of benefit to sharing more of that information in a confidential fashion
on an internal wiki, and that we should start doing that much more than we're
currently doing.
Some examples of what I mean here are:
# Agreements, particularly those with global impact, and/or where they affect more than
one Wikimedia organisation. Part of the recent Monmouthpedia/Gibraltarpedia situation was
caused by a lack of transparency about who had signed what agreements, and when they had
been signed - if these had all been shared on an internal wiki then some of this could
have been avoided. There's also a lot of experience now with existing agreements that
could be reused when new agreements are being written, e.g. for Wikimedians in Residences.
Sadly, not all of these can be made publicly available (or at least, they haven't been
to date).
# Press releases. When there's an upcoming significant press release from a Wikimedia
organisation, then it should be good practice to share it with the other movement partners
prior to its release, so that they are aware of it, can provide feedback, and can plan
around it. Some of this already happens on wmfcc-l, but not consistently - much more could
be done here.
# Domain names. There is a list of these on internal already, which is actually being
maintained by some people. Tackling squatted domain names and keeping track of who owns
what is a global problem that should be done collaboratively, but in confidence, rather
than just by individual organisations.
# Contact information for the various organisations. Some of this can be done publicly,
but not all, and it would be good to have a central place for this information anyway.
# Notices of sensitive activities. E.g. if there's an upcoming risk of law suits,
infrastructure difficulties within organisations, etc. then it would be good to be able to
share these and ask for help without publishing them to the world at the same time. That
doesn't need a mailing list - it can be done on a wiki.
# … and I'm sure there's more examples that can go here, this isn't trying to
be a complete list!
So, rather than close the internal wiki, I'd like to propose a radical redesign and
repurposing of it. Is there the interest and willingness in the WMF and the chapters to
share such information with each other?
Thanks,
Mike
(Note: this is a personal viewpoint, not necessarily that of WMUK.)
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